New Delhi [India], August 14 (ANI): In their relentless efforts to counter cross-border smuggling of narcotics, vigilant Border Security Forces (BSF) troops in collaboration with the Punjab Police recovered a drone with heroin on the Tarn Taran border, the BSF said in a release on Wednesday. Public Relations Officer, Punjab Frontier, Border Security Force (BSF) said, "Today (August 13), based on BSF's intelligence, 01 DJI AIR 3 S drone with 01 packet of heroin (Gross weight- 600 Grams) was reco...Read More
Vijayawada: YSRCP president Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy on Wednesday launched a scathing attack on Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, alleging that he maintained a "hotline" with Congress leader Rahul Gandhi through Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy. Addressing a press conference in Vijayawada, Jagan questioned Rahul Gandhi's silence on the YSRCP's 'vote chori' allegations after the 2024 elections. "When there was a 12 per cent variation between votes polled and votes counted last year, why...Read More
MUMBAI -- Indian exporters are scrambling for options to mitigate the fallout of the United States' threatened tariff salvo against the world's most populous country. Many warn of dire job losses after US President Donald Trump said he would double new import tariffs from 25 percent to 50 percent if India continues to buy Russian oil. "At 50 percent tariff, no product from India can stand any competitive edge," said economist Garima Kapoor from Elara Securities. India, one of the world's larg...Read More
New Delhi: A three-judge Bench of the Supreme Court will on Thursday hear the suo motu case titled 'In Re: City hounded by strays, kids pay price,' amid an ongoing debate over the relocation of stray dogs in Delhi-NCR. Animal activists, celebrities, and some political figures have voiced their objections to the order, highlighting that Delhi and other NCR cities like Noida and Gurugram lack the necessary infrastructure for carrying out the mass relocation within such a limited time. Additional...Read More
New Delhi [India], August 14 (ANI): In their relentless efforts to counter cross-border smuggling of narcotics, vigilant Border Security Forces (BSF) troops in collaboration with the Punjab Police recovered a drone with heroin on the Tarn Taran border, the BSF said in a release on Wednesday. Public Relations Officer, Punjab Frontier, Border Security Force (BSF) said, "Today (August 13), based on BSF's intelligence, 01 DJI AIR 3 S drone with 01 packet of heroin (Gross weight- 600 Grams) was recov...Read More
The Supreme Court has given the Telangana government six weeks. They must present a plan to restore the Kancha Gachibowli forest. The court insists on replanting uprooted trees. It emphasizes sustainable development. The court is balancing development with environmental protection. Earlier, the court questioned the felling of trees. It warned of potential action against officials. The Supreme Court on Wednesday granted six weeks to the Telangana government to come out with a "good proposal" for...Read More
Srinagar, Aug 13 (UNI) Amid tight security, full-dress rehearsals for the 79th Independence Day celebrations were held today at all district headquarters across Kashmir, marking the final preparations for the August 15 events. Various contingents of J&K Police, J&K Armed Police, Home Guards, Fire & Emergency Services, Forest Protection Forces, IRP, CAPFs, NCC Cadets & students from different schools participated in full dress rehearsal for the Independence Day parade. The ceremonies also incl...Read More
Dadar Kabutarkhana was covered by the BMC recently. Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Wednesday directed the formation of an expert committee to examine the pigeon-feeding controversy, while putting the brakes on the proposal of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to allow "controlled feeding" between 6 am and 8 am until public opinion is sought. A bench of Justices Girish Kulkarni and Arif Doctor was hearing petitions on the closure of a nearly a century-old Kabutarkhana in Dadar. Ma...Read More
The Supreme Court Wednesday delivered a significant blow to the Telangana government, nullifying the appointments of Prof M Kodandaram and Amir Ali Khan as Members of the Legislative Council (MLCs) under the Governor's quota. The top court's decision comes after a long-drawn legal battle challenging their nominations. The ruling, which also effectively removed the two men from their positions, stems from a petition filed by Dasoju Sravan and Satyanarayana. The petitioners argued that the appo...Read More
Hindupur MLA says 1,000-bed Centre of Excellence for cancer care to come up in two phases on 21 acres at Thullur, with first 500-bed facility set to be operational by 2028 at a cost of ₹750 crore Hindupur MLA and actor Nandamuri Balakrishna on Wednesday, August 13, launched the construction of the Amaravati campus of the Basavatarakam Indo-American Cancer Hospital and Research Institute at Thullur. Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Balakrishna said the new facility would be built on 21 acres and ...Read More
INDIA bloc leaders are set to meet in Parliament to strategize amidst escalating tensions. The opposition has strongly criticized the Election Commission of India (ECI) over alleged vote theft during past elections, leading to protests and detentions. Rahul Gandhi's accusations have ignited a political firestorm, with the BJP accusing the opposition of undermining the constitution. The leaders of the INDIA bloc will meet in Parliament at 10:15 am on Tuesday to discuss their strategy for the pro...Read More
Narendra Modi may speak at the UNGA in September. The 80th session starts on September 9. Donald Trump will address the session on September 23. Modi is scheduled to speak on September 26. Trade talks between India and the US continue. Trump imposed tariffs on India. India says the tariffs are unjustified. The UNGA session will address global conflicts. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to address the annual high-level session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in September, acc...Read More
The driver of the school bus abandoned the vehicle and fled the scene after the accident, they said. Sunny and Joginder, whose parents work in the Bari Brahmana industrial estate, were on their way to Samba when the accident occurred, the officials said, adding that a hunt is on to trace and arrest the bus driver who was reportedly driving rashly. In another incident, a woman and her toddler son were killed after the SUV they were travelling in skidded off the road and plunged into a gorge in ...Read More
Vijayawada: The Group of Ministers (GoM), formed by the State government to provide recommendations on changing the names and boundaries of districts, mandals, and villages, will hold its first meeting this Wednesday. The meeting is scheduled for 11 am at the Conference Hall on the first floor of the second block in the Secretariat, said revenue minister Anagani Satya Prasad on Monday. The minister said that the previous YSRCP government's reorganisation of districts was done without a clear, c...Read More
Himachal Pradesh faced nature's fury. Bridges collapsed in Shimla, Lahaul, and Spiti. Cloudbursts and flash floods caused widespread damage. Over 300 roads closed, disrupting travel. A police post swept away, shops damaged. No casualties reported yet. Orange alert issued for more heavy rain. The state has suffered significant financial losses this monsoon. Many people have died in rain-related incidents. Several bridges were washed away in Shimla and Lahaul and Spiti districts, while over 300 r...Read More
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday launched a sharp attack on the Congress, accusing it of being the "mother of electoral fraud" and citing a series of alleged manipulations in elections dating back to the early years of independent India. In a social media post on X accompanied by an infographic, the BJP listed five instances between 1952 and 1987, claiming that Congress leaders, including former prime ministers Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi, engaged in malpractices ...Read More
Pulivendula: Kadapa MP YS Avinash Reddy announced that the YSRCP will boycott the re-polling scheduled for two polling stations in the Pulivendula ZPTC by-election. Speaking to the media at the YSRCP office in Pulivendula, the MP alleged that the re-polling was an inadequate response to widespread electoral fraud committed by TDP. "The TDP created chaos with fraudulent votes in a total of 15 polling centers, but the Election Commission has only ordered re-polling in two booths. How is this fair...Read More
NEW DELHI: Nearly half a century after New Okhla Industrial Development Authority (Noida) came into existence, Supreme Court on Wednesday asked UP government to consider replacing it with a metropolitan council for people-centric governance. The direction was based on findings of an SC-constituted SIT, which gave a stinging report into the functioning of Noida Authority, finding, among other things, decision-making centralised in the hands of a few officers.Accepting SIT's recommendations, a ben...Read More
Vijayawada: AICC in-charge for Andhra Pradesh Manickam Tagore on Wednesday hit back at YSRCP chief Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy over his allegation that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was in touch with Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu through a "hotline." Tagore said people of Andhra Pradesh knew that Naidu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Jagan and Deputy CM Pawan Kalyan were working together. He asserted that unlike Jagan, Rahul Gandhi had not "surrendered" to Modi and S...Read More
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday said electoral rolls cannot "remain static" and were bound to be revised as it disagreed with the submission that special intensive revision (SIR) of voter list in poll-bound Bihar had no basis in law and ought to be quashed. A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi was informed by NGO Association of Democratic Reforms that the exercise should not be allowed to be carried out pan-India. Aside from the NGO, leaders of opposition parties includ...Read More
New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will visit Moscow on August 20-21, where he will hold talks with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov. The visit comes days after the United States imposed an additional 25 per cent tariff on Indian goods in response to New Delhi's continued purchase of Russian oil. Earlier, Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a detailed conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin amid the trade uncertainty and tariff announcements. Both the leaders discu...Read More
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to address the annual high-level session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in September, according to a provisional list of speakers issued by the United Nations. The 80th session of the UNGA will open on September 9. The high-level General Debate will run from September 23-29, with Brazil as the traditional first speaker of the session, followed by the US. US President Donald Trump will address world leaders from the iconic UNGA po...Read More
Hyderabad: The Supreme Court on Wednesday clarified that the forest devastated at Kancha Gachibowli in April 2025 must be restored. "The state can have an IT park (and all) away from the place. Multiples of the trees uprooted in the area have to be planted," stated the bench of Chief Justice BR Gavai and Justice K Vinod Chandran, while hearing the suo motu PIL on Kancha Gachibowli forest. When the state counsels informed the bench that 'everything is stopped' in the area and that a meeting was ...Read More
Hyderabad: Upholding the Telangana High Court's interim orders, the Supreme Court on Wednesday quashed the nominations of M Kodandaram and Amir Ali Khan as Members of the Legislative Council (MLCs) under the Governor's quota Acting on a petition filed by Bharat Rashtra Samithi leaders Sravan Dasoju and K Satyanarayana, the apex court cancelled the nominations of the two as MLCs. The SC ordered the stay while hearing arguments that the appointments had violated previous interim orders of the Te...Read More
New Delhi: After widespread protests across the country following a top court verdict on relocation of stray dogs in Delhi-NCR, a new three-judge bench of the Supreme Court will hear the suo motu case on Thursday. A bench comprising Justices Vikram Nath, Sandeep Mehta and N V Anjaria will hear the matter. The directions to permanently relocate all strays from streets to shelters "at the earliest" were passed by a bench comprising Justice J B Pardiwala and Justice R Mahadevan on August 11....Read More
Mumbai, Aug 14 (SocialNews.XYZ) Bollywood actor Shilpa Shetty Kundra, her businessman husband Raj Kundra, and an unidentified individual have been booked by the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) for allegedly defrauding a Mumbai-based businessman of Rs 60.4 crore in a loan-cum-investment deal linked to their now-defunct company, Best Deal TV Pvt Ltd, police said on Thursday. According to Mumbai Police, businessman Deepak Kothari has accused the couple of jointly cheating him of more than Rs 60 crore...Read More
CHENNAI: Protests in unauthorised locations cannot be permitted, and the cleanliness workers who have been staging a stir on the pavement outside the Ripon Building should move to designated protest zones, said a Division Bench of Chief Justice Manindra Mohan Shrivastava and Justice Sunder Mohan on Wednesday. "While the right to protest is fundamental, it cannot infringe upon the rights of the public," the bench observed, instructing the authorities to clear the area outside Ripon Building "at ...Read More
New Delhi : In a departure from the usual exchange between the two border forces, it took the Pakistani Rangers more than 48 hours to acknowledge a protest note by their Indian counterpart, the Border Security Force, reportedly after waiting for a nod from their senior commanders in Lahore, BSF officials aware of the matter said. They said the Rangers did not acknowledge a protest note by the BSF after the latter shot a Pakistani intruder in the Kathua region of Jammu on Monday. The intruder, B...Read More
Hyderabad: North Telangana districts bore the brunt of heavy rains that disrupted normal life in many parts of the state on Wednesday. People in the northern districts were subject to harrowing times to reach their destinations due to the extensive damage to roads that was made worse by breaches across culverts and bridges on overflowing canals and water bodies. Meanwhile, flights were diverted at Shamshabad airport due to the heavy downpour in Greater Hyderabad limits. Hyderabad-bound flights ...Read More
* A person does not become Indian citizen by possessing documents like Aadhaar or PAN card, said high court * The Citizenship Act 1955 defines who can acquire or lose Indian citizenship * The Citizenship Act of 1955 is the main law for deciding questions about nationality in India, said the court Did our AI summary help? Let us know. Switch To Beeps Mode Mumbai: A person does not become a citizen of India merely by possessing documents like Aadhaar card, PAN card or a voter ID, the Bombay...Read More